Obama to Medvedev: We're in the Same Boat, Comrade

Obama said to Medvedev that the U.S. wanted a strong, prosperous but also democratic Russia, as he set out his vision of the U.S. relationship with its former Cold-War era foe.
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"There is this deep, deep resentment, festering resentment about the United States. The Russians have a real case of the 'Rodney Dangerfield Syndrome' – they just feel they don't get enough respect, and they're going to stomp their feet and get more. That's their tactic." —Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution on U.S. relations with Russia